The photographs below show
the recovery and the defusing of a 4000lb HC "cookie" bomb carried by RAF
Lancaster bombers.

This particular bomb is
believed to be the one carried by Lancaster ED627, EM-N of 207 Squadron as
it was discovered in the Hohenberg area of Wolpertshausen near to where
ED627 crashed. It was uncovered during the building of the new (at that
time) A6 Autobahn and defused on site in April 1977.

The story of the discovery
and defusing of the bomb was told in two newspaper articles written by
Michael S Koziol (iol) and published in the German newspaper Haller Tagblatt,
Schwäbisch Hall.

In this photograph can be
seen Pauk Kolesnikov, the
bomb disposal expert with the fuses from the bomb

On this map the
"X" shows the location of where the above bomb was found during the
excavation for the new A6 Autobahn. The circle on the left of the map shows
the location of the Kochertal Bridge (named after the river Kocher in the
valley). Since 1979 it is the highest German autobahn bridge, 195 meters
high and 1120 meters long.

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The two photographs below
from the Google Earth website show the location of Hohenberg and the A6
Autobahn and the location using the map above of where the bomb was
discovered